Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has informed Finland that it will stop supplying it with natural gas from Saturday morning, Gasum, the Finnish state-owned company responsible for importing and selling natural gas, announced on Friday. and gas.
In a context of tensions in Western countries over the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is now demanding that the countries be judged not sociable to pay for gas deliveries in rubles, which Gasum refused to do.
Sadly, natural gas deliveries under our supply contract have now been delayedand group chief executive Mika Wiljanen.
We have, however, prepared well for this situation and, if there are no disruptions to the gas delivery network, we will be able to provide gas to all our customers in the coming months., he added in a press release. Cutting off Russian deliveries is scheduled for May 21 at 4 am
Other sources of supply
The Gasum company, which warned on Wednesday about the risk of disruption, said it would continue to supply its Finnish customers from other sources thanks to the Balticconnector gas pipeline that connects Finland to Estonia.
Most of the gas used in Finland comes from Russia, but gas only makes up about 5% of the Nordic country’s annual energy consumption.
This announcement comes two days after Finland applied for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a request prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Gazprom did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Moscow had no detailed information about Gazprom’s supply contracts.
But it is clear that nothing will be given to anyone for freeadded Mr. Peskov.
Russia stopped delivering electricity to Finland on Monday because of unpaid bills.
Source: Radio-Canada
